living with the lab
boosting hands-on learning in engineering education
courses

Louisiana Tech operates on a quarter calendar. All first-year engineering students take ENGR 120, 121 and 122 along with co-requisite math and science courses. These two semester hour, project-based, ENGR courses meet twice per week for 110 minutes throughout the year. An increasing level of independence is expected as students fabricate and test projects that are increasingly complex and open-ended. ENGR 122 culminates at the Freshman Design Expo where students showcase the smart products that they have conceived, designed, fabricated and tested.

The current verision of the Living with the Lab curriculum uses an Arduino microcontroller along with the Parallax Boe-Bot parts kit.

ENGR 120
ENGR 120
Engineering Problem Solving I

121
ENGR 121
Engineering Problem Solving II
122
ENGR 122
Engineering Problem Solving III

An older version of the Living with the Lab curriculum used the BASIC Stamp II microcontroller instead of the Arduino. Course materials associated with the former curriculum are provided below.

ENGR 120
ENGR 120
Engineering Problem Solving I
ENGR 121
ENGR 121
Engineering Problem Solving II
ENGR 122
ENGR 122
Engineering Problem Solving III

Continuity between the freshman year and upper level courses is provided through projects implemented in the three sophomore-level ENGR courses.

College of Engineering and Science
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, Louisiana		  

Project supported by the National Science Foundation's Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program under Award No. 0618288.
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